~ a New Yorker's American History blog

From the trenches of the National Archives

Organizing and cataloging archive and library holdings is a time consuming and laborious task. This is something that is lost on many people when they sit down and read a history book. Those primary sources used by researchers didn’t catalog, file and box themselves. The National Archives recently created this video honoring 295 volunteers who each donated at least 100 hours to the NA. All told these individuals contributed over 42,000 hours to various projects.